Re: which PC

In article <YdedndPzYruEnO7bnZ2dnUVZ_oavnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ron Hunter
<rphunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There may be hundreds you DON'T know about in
the wild, and wouldn't admit if one bit your backside.

right. hundreds of viruses spreading rampantly, infecting millions of
macs worldwide, except for a few small details you overlooked:

- not a single user has noticed anything nefarious.
- not a single mac software developer has noticed any strange processes.
- not a single news report of something in the wild.
- security experts whose job it is to find them have not found anything.
- anti-virus vendors who would sell more product don't even claim this.
- the design of os x makes it very difficult to write effective malware
and in six years since it was released (not to mention the 30+ years of
unix itself), nothing has happened, suggesting that 'hundreds in the
wild' is nothing more than uninformed hyperbole.
.

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